ビザと美徳

ビザと美徳 (1997)

Visas and Virtue

ナチからユダヤ人6,000人を逃がした“命のビザ”の杉原千畝を描く。

1940年夏、ソ連に併合されかけている小国リトアニアの各国大使館や領事館は、相次いで閉鎖されつつあった。同時にナチスの侵略も迫っていた。そんな時期に、命の危険を感じた大量のユダヤ難民が、安全な第三国へ逃れようと日本領事館に殺到する。ビザを発行してくれるのはもはや日本領事館しか残っていないのだ。領事代理の杉原千畝は本国外務省にビザ発行の許可を求める。本省からは「発給は不許可」との返信電報が届くが…。

公開日
1997-05-01
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (7)
上映時間（分）
27分
ジャンル
ドラマ, 履歴
監督
Chris Tashima

キャスト

豆知識

  • 受賞：1 · ノミネート：1. 主な受賞：アカデミー短編映画賞

Visas and Virtue is a 1997 narrative short film directed by Chris Tashima and starring Tashima, Susan Fukuda, Diana Georger and Lawrence Craig. It was inspired by the true story of Holocaust rescuer Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara, who is known as "The Japanese Schindler". Sugihara issued over 2,000 transit visas to Polish and Lithuanian Jews from his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in August 1940, in defiance of his own government (Japan), thereby allowing an estimated 6,000 individuals to escape the impending Holocaust.

Background

This film is a dramatization (docu-drama) and contains fictional characters and events. It is not a documentary. It is based on an original one-act play by Tim Toyama, which was performed at The Road Theatre Company in Los Angeles in 1995. The play was then adapted by actor/director Chris Tashima in 1996, and completed as a 26-minute film in 1997.

Visas and Virtue won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film in March, 1998 (70th Academy Awards). The Oscar statuettes went to actor and director Tashima and producer Chris Donahue.

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